These projects investigate our understanding of contemporary practices, develop our use of emerging technologies in creative fields, explore the ways in which we can live more sustainably and improve health and wellbeing through co-creation.
The LICL project is a collaboration between Norwich University of the Arts, Broads Authority, Collusion, Anglia Ruskin University and Restoration Trust.
The project explores future landscapes and the impact of climate change on communities in The Broads and The Fens. The project will work with those communities to co-create narratives and artworks that explore not only the change and devastation but ideas for positive alternative futures that might emerge.
Documentary Surrealism investigates the intersection of surrealism and documentary across media and art forms.
The project, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council, is a collaboration between Dr Kristoffer Noheden, in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, and Professor Fijalkowski from Norwich University of the Arts. It argues that documentary strategies are central for international surrealism, including both historic and contemporary practice.
The Rivers Centre project is a collaboration between Norwich University of the Arts, Hospital Rooms and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust to redevelop Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, and remodel use of the site as The Rivers Centre.
Research involves creative workshops, artists commissions and co-produced evaluation frameworks with the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust lived experience team (LET). It will be the biggest arts and health project that the University and Hospital Rooms have developed.
This project aims to create a database of 30+ organisations (universities, arts organisations, charities, businesses), projects, activities and funding streams for creative arts and health in the Norfolk and Waveney area. It builds on a nascent network that emerged from the Norwich University of the Arts & UEA Centenary of Caring project in 2020-21. Project partners include Norwich University of the Arts and University of East Anglia.
The FibreBroads Project aims to investigate how crops grown in wetlands (known as paludiculture) could provide a sustainable income for growers based in the Broads. Paludiculture has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared to the emissions associated with dryland agricultural use.
The project is led by the Broads Authority and funded by the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and involves partners including Norfolk County Council, Norfolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (NFWAG), Hudson Architects, Wetland Products Foundation, Norwich University of Arts and global impact firm Palladium.
Working with partners The User Story and the School of Pharmacy (UEA) and funded by The Small Providers fund, the project uses DRIES technology that turns beauty products like moisturiser into a dry piece of confetti-like ‘paper’.
This means that 98 per cent of the water in products like moisturiser, sun-cream, shampoo, and conditioner can be removed. It could revolutionise the beauty industry by dramatically reducing both its carbon footprint and packaging waste. The project will focus on potential markets for the product concept and how this can be communicated through design.
ART//TECH//PLAY is a programme of activities led by Collusion to support artists and creatives to build confidence and knowledge of creative technologies in a practice-led way.
With funding from Arts Council England and project partners, the programme aims to support artists to develop new creative practice, ideas, and networks. Partners include Norwich University of the Arts, Anglia Ruskin University, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich Theatre, Dance East and Cambridge Junction.
Northside House was a collaboration between Norwich University of the Arts, Hospital Rooms and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust to improve the environment and affect the care practices of a forensic mental health unit.
The research involved co-production between artists, staff and patients as well as a pilot model for evaluating the impact of this arts and health project.
Norwich University of the Arts was part of the Broads Landscape Partnership scheme to conduct research into the preservation of the Broads National Park and public engagement with the Broads landscape and environment.
A Centenary of Caring was a collective arts-based wellbeing project to explore and represent the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project was a collaboration between Norwich University of the Arts staff and students, health care practitioners with Norfolk and Waveney Strategic Partnership and UEA Health Sciences.
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